Good Morning: Laugh, treasure and enjoy each day

Thursday

Jan 9, 2014 at 6:00 AM

To all my readers, this is a note of thanks. I have appreciated every note, phone call, email and verbal comment on my "Good Mornings" in 2013.

It means so much to me that you take the time to stop me and tell me that I have made you either laugh or cry and sometimes both. I appreciate that you tell me you can relate to so much of what I write about.

I must have had more than 200 comments on my column of being left behind one Christmas Eve. It was great that many of you shared with me that you had either left someone or had been left. (I felt much better to know that I did not have to wait the two hours while my fellow fishermen realized I was not in any of their cars.) I also smiled at the comment from the gentleman that told me if I was left again he would come and pick me up, so I need not worry anymore.

Many of you say, "Please write more about your cats" and others say "no more cat stories." The answer to the question as far as did Lucca steal baby Jesus this year from my nativities. No - the reason is we did not put the small sets out.

They stayed packed away and we are hoping that next year he will be old enough not to bother them, but then again maybe not. He did take my Lladro Jesus and knocked it to the floor, so I had to reposition that set.

Do I pick on Steve too much? His male breakfast friends think I do, but they should feel lucky because if I did not pick on him once in a while I would start joining them at McDonald's for breakfast and really have some good fodder for columns.

Some of you commented that I shared so much about my life and seemed to always take things in stride. Well, folks, what else can we do? Life is too short to not laugh about the everyday events that happen to you.

I know some of you are asking for more travel stories/articles and I hope to get a few written early this year, so just hang on.

But my wish for you this New Year is to make it your best year ever as there are no unimportant days in our lives, so laugh and treasure and enjoy each day. Thanks again.

Ann Young loved this quote by Storm Jameson: "The things we take with us when we die will all be small things."